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	Name:	longtimer -
	Subject:	jimimy christmas...
	Date:	2/16/2006 12:20:58 AM

So you, using all of your experience, have decided that Lake Martin will "stay the same?" Let me ask you, the same as WHAT? The same as it is right this very second? Well, I guess there is a chance, but history says otherwise. The FACT is, this lake has changed more than you could possibly comprehend in just the last few yesrs; go back 20 years, like many of us do, and it's not even close to what it once was.

NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.

What's the reason for this change? People. Not "Atlanta people" or "Birmingham people", but people-- more and more of them discovering what used to be a secret has created what we have today. And while it still might be considered great, listen to some of us old-timers-- it isn't even CLOSE to being as nice as it once was. It's dirtier, noisier, uglier, and the mind boggles at how much more crowded it is. (And, the three previous things I mentioned are all side-effects of the fourth.)

Now, there are some who will say that the lake area is better than it used to be because now we have more restuarants, more shopping centers, more grocery stores, more street lights, more paved roads, more houses, more boats and more people (along with fewer of those annoying trees and animals, fewer stars at night, and less of that icky fresh air.) Fact is, we could have had all of those things in the 50s, 60s and 70s had we wanted them, but those of us who were here decided we liked those things much better when they stayed where they were, and we could go to them when we felt the need. But then a few soulless folks who worshipped money discovered us, liked what they saw, and moved here. But, they soon realized that they missed all of those things that we were escaping from. And rather than move back to where those things were, they brought them here.

So if you like things the way they are now, you're lucky, and I bear no malice towards you for that. But if you think things are going to stay like this, you're stupid. Or, let's be nice and say naive and uninformed; if you're not truly stupid, you'll do what you can to become more informed, rather than do the usual thing and say "That's what I think, and that's good enough for me."

To answer the original question, why "Atlanta people?" Because there are so many more of them. So many more of them who don't have a problem with living in a cement and glass jungle, and who think they should import those backwards ideas down this way.